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People who say "less" when they mean "fewer" ought to be turned into soup, the soup fed to baboons and the baboons fired into an active volcano. What has you grinding your teeth with rage, and why?

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(, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 14:36)
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Oh god, here we go:
- People who call PCs (as a complete entity) the "Hard Drive": why then, don't you call your car "The Engine" or "The Brakes"?
- Apples (the fruit): shiny, sweet, horrid things. Why the fuck are you popular?
- Birds: you bunch of airbourne twats! The other dinosaurs had the decency to die out, why can't you?
- Mouth Ulcers: why, God, why? Definitive prove of the non-existence of a benign God.
- Holidays: I hate 'em. If I'm away from home for more than 48hrs I get antsy. God knows what I'd be like if I ever had to do time.
- Window blinds: what the fuck is wrong with curtains?
- Having to repeat myself: this one is unfair, as I'm a very soft-spoken mumbler, but it's part of the magic that is me.

That's enough for now.
(, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 15:47, 7 replies)
Hahahaha birds
Heard the Jam sketch?

"SHUT UP! SHUT UP!"
(, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 15:49, closed)
No, I haven't.
Linkage or it didn't happen. ;p
(, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 15:51, closed)
I have found myself referring to 'Hard Drive' to denote the PC otherwise
the folks in the office stand open mouthed and stare at me uncomprehendingly. Sometimes a little dribble of saliva will make a break for it if they stand still for too long. Having spent many of my formative years in tech support it makes me die a little inside every time I say it.
(, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 15:58, closed)
A couple of colleagues
refer to the tower case as "the processor".
(, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 16:04, closed)
Apples.
Apples vary enormously.
There are the sweet bland things that are sort of apple-shaped, and picture perfect beloved by the supermarkets.
And then there are the rest, varying from ones that explode with juice, to ones that are as bitter as the taste left by the promises of a manifesto, to ones that are almost potatos.
(, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 20:27, closed)
Engine
is an unusual synecdoche but 'motor' or 'wheels' are easily enough understood, aren't they?

'Hard drive' is idiotic though.
(, Sat 2 Apr 2011, 13:38, closed)
apples, birds, holidays and window blinds
You are nothing if not unique in your choices for your ire.
(, Tue 5 Apr 2011, 16:00, closed)

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